Often described as 'the father of realism', Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpieceThe Wild Duck, his complex and compelling playRosmersholm, the epic dramaBrandand the tragedyJohn Gabriel Borkman. Ibsen'sA Doll's Houseis relocated to 1879 India in Tanika Gupta's Audio Drama Award-winning dramatisation, while the provocative and scandalousGhostsis adapted by Richard Eyre, with the cast of his Olivier Award-winning Almeida Theatre production.
Also featured are vibrant dramatisations ofHedda Gabler, whose desperate heroine is trapped in a suffocating marriage;The Lady from the Sea, about a woman torn between security and passion; andAn Enemy of the People, in which a whistleblower reveals an inconvenient truth and is vilified for it.
The casts of these stunning dramas includeDavid Threlfall, Nicholas Farrell, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley ManvilleandHarriet Walter.